It turns out humans and dogs have more in common than typically believed. According to researchers at Budapest’s MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, dogs, like people, possess the power to recall past events.


It turns out humans and dogs have more in common than typically believed. 
According to researchers at Budapest’s MTA-ELTE Comparative Ethology Research Group, dogs, like people, possess the power to recall past events. 
In a recently published study, the team confirmed the existence of episodic memory in dogs through a series of experiments in which the four-legged friends reacted to the movements of people. 
In the first round of testing and analysis, 17 canines were trained to mimic a human action upon hearing the command “Do it!” 
Once the canine group perfected that stage of the exercise, they were then encouraged to react to human movement by lying down.
A press release about the study notes that "after the dogs had learned to lie down reliably, the researchers surprised them by saying 'Do It' and the dogs did. In other words, the dogs recalled what they'd seen the person do even though they had no particular reason to think they'd need to remember."
Their episodic memories held in both the short and long terms, but did fade as time went on. 
Claudia Fugazza, one of the researchers, said, “The results of our study can be considered as a further step to break down artificially erected barriers between non-human animals and humans.”